Spotlight

The LYNX UP Challenge is an annual, friendly competition for CU Denver faculty and staff to further support our students' success by investing in scholarships. This year the campus is divided into four teams, named after four of the 14ers in Colorado. CLAS is on Team Quandary with the Office...

Stephen Hartnett, Patrick Dodge, and Lisa Keranen from the Communication Department have been named recipients of this year's Xiao Award for Outstanding Rhetorical Research from the Association for Chinese Communication Studies (ACCS). This award honors the strongest published article in the area of China-related rhetorical studies from the past two...

Physics Professor Martin E. Huber was asked to contribute a quote to the latest exhibit at the Clyfford Still Museum – "Still: Elemental" – relating his work to the classical Greek elements of earth, water, air, fire and aether. Prior to the exhibit opening, Huber was interviewed as a local...

In his new book Gathering Social Network Data (Sage, 2019), Director of the Undergraduate Major in Public Health and Associate Professor of Health and Behavioral Sciences, Jimi Adams focuses on the principles necessary for gathering social network data. On this episode of the podcast New Books in Sociology (a Channel...

The University of Colorado system is currently piloting a partnership with Coursera to promote innovation, encourage discovery, and support the extension of knowledge in ways unique to the state of Colorado and beyond. As part of this pilot program, Jacob McWilliams, Director of the Women and Gender Center, and K...

Amy Wachholtz, Clinical Health Psychology Director and Associate Professor of Psychology, recently received a NIH – HEAL Initiative Grant award. Wachholtz is co-PI on the project: Enhancing Exercise and Psychotherapy to Treat Comorbid Addiction and Pain for Improving Adherence to Medication Assisted Treatment in Opioid Use Disorders . This research...

Kate Hayes, PhD student Integrated Biology, was recently awarded a GRIN (Graduate Research Innovation Grant ) to expand her work focusing on vegetation succession (and in particular how changes in the post-fire communities alter flammability, testing the overall strength of negative feedback associated with the transition to deciduous species in...

Peter Anthamatten, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, and his co-authors are a 2019 recipient of the Journal of Geography Award from the National Council for Geographic Education for, “Giant Maps as Pedagogical Tools for Teaching Geography and Mathematics.” The paper was chosen as...

Registration and regalia rental requests close November 10th. Faculty registration is requested even if regalia rental is not needed. Alma mater hoods can be guaranteed through October 21st. Interested in purchasing custom faculty regalia? Please visit academicregalia.herffjones.com . Please allow 8-9 weeks for the product to be created and shipped...

Kevin Masters’ lab is looking for participants for a new study. Metabolic Syndrome is a cluster of conditions that occur together which increase your risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and stroke. You must meet 3 or more of the conditions below for Metabolic Syndrome: Excess Body Fat around...